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CHINA DAILY: Foreign ministers shore up China and Europe relations
Visits by EU members provide a platform for dialogue on common interests
Last week’s visits to China by the foreign ministers of Ireland, Serbia, Poland and Hungary convey a clear message to the world that China and Europe do not want their relations to go into free fall.
Coming shortly after the EU suspended the ratification process for the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, concluded at the end of last year after more than seven years of difficult negotiations, and Lithuania’s withdrawal from the 17+1 co-operation mechanism between China and 17 Central and East European countries, the visits can help clear air polluted by the mistruths being propagated by US-backed anti-China elements...
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